Re: speculation -- Enthetan, Phenomanon, Hoax -- Yes, there is plenty of good reason to speculate that they did get lots of that money back. But still, no way (yet) to know.
When I was a manger of something-or-other, I got to select my contractors. It was common for them to say: hey, if you promise to spend X during the next year, I'll kick you down group vacations to Hawaii for 2 weeks, etc. You could select the purveyor by the gifts they handed back. Sleezy!
But, if we're in a small circle, what's to say Davey didn't have his lawmen put together a NPO called Save The Spicy Dill Pickles, and have them do the business through lawyers, and layers. And - Why the F pay cash? Well, if I speculate a little harder, it's because STSDP is scooping a big slice right off the top, and the lawyers are making a secret deal with the real estate selling company. $35,000,000 estates are not "sold by owner". Nor are any of the mega and historical properties that they buy. The Spicy Pickles assure that the property can be gotten for $10,000,000 and the other $25,000,000 can go from the Spicy Pickle NPO to the Save The Pine Cones NPO, run by lawyers. Save The Pine Cones buys "things" and gives them to the dwarf.
It's really pretty easy, given the cash in these transactions. And it's always cash. Maybe the Dwarf wants his $25,000,000 in off-shore or gold. No way to know what they're doing. But I'd bet my ass, someone did a whole lot better than a 8 person trip to Hawaii for 2 weeks. And, this kind of transaction doesn't need a year to transpire, just a month or 3. Cash gets things done really fast.